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Chapter 5
Dying Night
Tsuki and Axl head off together towards the humans town. To pass the time they tell each other about their lives. "So, you were an orphan?" Tsuki asks.
"Yeah my mother died while giving birth to me, and my father ran off like the coward he is!" Axl clenches his teeth as he says this.
"Why do you hate your father so much?" she asks with much curiosity.
"Well since my father left I was always alone, so whenever something happened to me or people I cared for I had no one to turn to and endured things a kid shouldn't have too all because my father left me all alone, and so I've hated and blamed him for my horrid childhood."
"Do you know where he ran off to?"
"No, wish I did though."
"Must be hard."
"It is, but anyway enough about me how about you." he smiles at her, "Didn't you say you were sent down by your parents?"
"Yes, to help my clan."
"So technicality that makes you a Goddess?"
"Not really. You see I'm not aloud to return to my parents unless I find a stone that will protect my village for years. While I'm down here, I must be careful everyone seeks to destroy me so they can destroy my clan."
"You are one weird girl." Axl laughs and pokes her shoulder.
She smiles at him.
They are quiet for most of the day.Night falls, Tsuki and Axl decide to set up camp in a nearby forest.
"Tsuki, why are we stopping? If we keep going we could be there within a few days."
"It's a full moon tonight wolves come out to play at that time. We mustn't risk getting into a battle with them."
"They're just wolves I could take them with my hands tied!"
Tsuki giggles, "Axl, Axl, Axl, you must not know much about this countries wolves. They will tear you apart no matter how strong you are, they are demons just like you and me they don't give up easily, and not to mention their leader is seeking me. Which is bad."
"I'll keep you safe from harm no matter what it is!" He raises a fist in the air.
Tsuki walks up to him, she puts a hand on his cheek and looks into his eyes, "I'm glad your protective of me Axl, but I don't want you getting into anything that involves me, you may get hurt and I don't want that happening to you." she kisses his forehead, "Now lets' get some sleep." she smiles at him before walking over to her pallet.
'She kissed my forehead.' Axl smiles sweetly at her, 'At least it's a start.' he walks over to his pallet which is beside Tsuki's, lays down close to her and falls asleep.
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In the middle of the night Tsuki wakes Axl saying she had a nightmare of him all bloody and beat up. He wraps his arms around her and holds her telling her "Everything will be okay it was just a dream." She slowly falls asleep in his arms and shortly after Axl falls asleep as well.A cold morning comes, the forest is extremely foggy. Axl wakes up with Tsuki still sound asleep in his arms. He kisses her cheek, she wakes up and looks at him,"Good morning." he whispers.
She smiles tiredly, "Good morning."she yawns, "It sure is...cold this morning."
"Sure is, did you sleep okay?"
"Oh yes." she smiles at him.
Axl smiles back at her, "That's good to hear."
"Well we should get up, if we leave now we should get to their border by night."
He tightens his arms grip around her, "But..."
She looks at him questionably.
He turns his head away, "Nothing...never mind."
"No, tell me what's wrong." she forces him to look at her.
"It's nothing really." he looks at the ground.
"Axl please tell me."
"I...I...don't think it's a good idea to leave now, I mean the fog is so thick that we could run into danger." he laughs nervously.
"That's not what you were going to say."
"It's the fog it reminds me of...." he looks around cautiously.
"Of what?"
"Of someone I fought before."
Tsuki looks around carefully examining the fog, "Now that you mention it, this fog does seem familiar."
Axl closes his eyes and remembers the time he fought this strange creature, (Start of flashback) "You fight well for someone from the Sumizome clan."
"I'm an outcast I no longer have anything to do with that clan or its way of life!!"
"You make it seem like it's a bad clan to live in." Axl laughs.
"Have you met their leader. She's quite the dumb one."
"As a matter a fact I have. What is it that you hate so much about her...Enmu."
"That's none of your business!" Enmu charges at Axl.
"You know you can't win." Axl charges at Enmu.
Their swords clash echoing through out the field.
"I shall not be defeated by the likes of you!" the fog around them thickens.
"So, you escape danger by blinding your enemy in a thick fog?"Axl smirks, "How childish."
"My fog does more then hide me!"
"Why do I feel dizzy?"
"It poisons my enemies."
Axl falls to the ground, his vision begins to blur. A soft voice comes from in front of him, "Enmu enough, this man is not a threat to us."
"But sister I'm having fun torturing him."
"Stop it!" she walks up to Axl, "I'm sorry for my brother he always acts like this." she puts her hand on his back. She begins bringing the poison out slowly and forming it into a ball, "Do be careful mister. Enmu come on!" she turns around and walks off.
"Alright fine I'm coming!" he walks up to Axl and stabs his sword in his back, "Let that be a reminder that our fight's not over." he pulls his sword back out.
"And......let...this...." he weakly stands up and stabs Enmu in the back, "Be....a....reminder that.....our fight's.......not over....." he twists his sword and pulls it out slowly.
Enmu wipes the blood from his mouth, "Stupid Sumizome worshiper." he walks off and catches up with his sister.
Axl falls to the ground and passes out. (End of flash back)
"Enmu was his name he had some kind of hatred towards your clan, but his sister she was so kind even though she was an outcast like him."
"Rosuto was never the kind to kill or attack she was my clans top healer before she got sick."
"What do you mean before she got sick?"
"She was so healthy and then it hit her like a bomb, a sickness that cannot be cured only treated, but my village had no treatment for it so she set out with her brother to find one."
"Was that why they were outcast?"
"No, Enmu had tried to kill me many times, the village and myself got tired of him trying to take over the village. So I outcast him, his sister tagged along cause now she could travel and find the treatment she's been looking for."
"Interesting."
"There you are!!" a voice sounds from the fog, "You've been here all along and I looked here twice."
"Hey wait that's not Enmu."
"Then who is it?"
"It's that human that attacked me by the river!"
"Listen to me there's a wolf and some other guy looking for you in this fog you must get out of here quickly!"
"Why are you helping us human!" Axl readies his sword.
"I'm not helping you I don't care what happens to you, I'm just worried about Tsuki."
"Get lost! We don't need the help of a human!!" Axl sheaths his sword.
"Tsuki why must you hang out with people who love to fight, when I know you do not?" he smirks, "I'd say you should kill him, ditch him, run away from him he's nothing but trouble for you my dear Tsuki."
"Shut up!!" Axl gets ready to charge at him.
Tsuki puts her arm out in front of him, "There is no need to fight Axl leave him be."
"How could you say that, didn't you hear what he said you should do to me!?"
"Yes...yes, I did but we can resolve this later, we must get out of this forest."
"Why later, why not now, why not kill him now and get it over with!!?"
"Sounds like to me she's agreeing with me." he laughs.
"Shut up!!" Axl moves Tsuki's arm and charges at him.
A bright light comes up from behind Shinikake,"Kill him." he orders and it flies at Axl.
Axl dodges it and keeps charging at Shinikake. It turns around, wraps Axl in a tight grip and pulls him over to Shinikake, "Hmm...you look awfully familiar."
Axl struggles to get out of the lights grip,"Let me go you wretched human!"
"Ah! Now I remember your Shiro's boy, yes he told me much about you in our last fight."
Axl gets his hand free and slices the light in half, he falls to the ground, "Your going to die right here right now." he growls.
"My you act just like your father so persistent on killing ones enemy."
"I am nothing like my father!!!" he slices at him.
He dodges but was to slow and got cut below his ribs. He stumbles a bit and regains his posture, "Your father-" Axl stabs his stomach, "My father means nothing to me!" he pulls his blade out and Shinikake falls to the ground in a heap of blood. Shinikake disappears and reappears behind Axl, the light flies at him and slices his back creating a deep wound. Axl tumbles forward a bit and turns around as he throws his sword, it stabs Shinikake right beside his heart, he falls backward. Axl walks up to him and pulls his sword out, "Now...you will die." he raises his sword.
"Axl stop!" Tsuki transforms, runs up to him, grabs him by his shirt collar and runs off far away from the woods.
"Dang it Tsuki put me down!!"
She ties him to a tree, "I'm not getting you down from there until you calm down." she transforms back.
"I'm not calming down until he is DEAD!!"
"I know you badly want to kill him but now's not the time to be getting into a fight."
"I don't care I want him dead I want him erased from this world!!" he begins struggling wildly.
'His eyes, they look different....why?' she thinks as she looks closely at his face.
"Get me down from here I want to kill him I wan-" Axl stops and looks at Tsuki like she's weird, "Why are you so close to my face?"
"Your eyes...they're different." she gets even closer, "They look, cool when they're like this."
"Cool!? What the heck are you talking about, it means I'm in rage when they're like this!!!"
She puts a hand on his cheek, "Would you be in rage if I did....this?" she leans up and kisses him on the lips.
Axl is shocked and slowly begins to calm down. She breaks the kiss and smiles sweetly at him.
He smiles sweetly back at her. Axl stares at her, "Thank you."
She cuts the ropes and he slides down the tree. He walks up to her and holds her tightly."Thank you, I don't know what I would've done if I got to out of control."
She wraps her arms around his waist, lays her head on his chest, closing her eyes, and smiling.
 Gekkou Doragon · Sun Nov 08, 2009 @ 11:49am · 0 Comments |
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